“I’m sure men are in the same boat as far as having to be on antidepressants because of outside circumstances,” said a midwestern woman I talked to. “But looking at it from a woman’s perspective, it makes me even more angry. We give so much of our bodies to others already.” So much of womanhood just hurts: cramps, childbirth, mammograms, Pap smears, breastfeeding—not to mention eyebrow threading. “There’s so much wear and tear on us, yet we’re all expected to look younger than we are. Now we’re also fucking with our brains so that we can live in this world. It’s just so much.”
